Digby

01/03/2011

A few months ago I got my first dog. I got her from the Tampa Humane Society. I named her Digby. I got the name from the name of another dog I was originally trying to get but didn’t work out. Jen, who I work with at Wufoo, thought it was a cute name when I originally mentioned it and thought it would be fun to call her “Digs” for short and that sealed the deal for me.

After naming her that, a number of interesting things have come up around the name that I think are kind of neat.

The Big Lebowski

DONNY: Those are good burgers, Walter.

WALTER: Shut the fuck up, Donny. This kid is in the ninth grade, Dude, and his father is–are you ready for this?– Arthur Digby Sellers.

DUDE: Who the fuck is that?

WALTER: Huh?

DUDE: Who the fuck is Arthur Digby Sellers?

WALTER: Who the f— have you ever heard of a little show called Branded, Dude?

DUDE: Yeah.

WALTER: “All but one man died? There at Bitter Creek?”

DUDE: Yeah, yeah, I know the fucking show, Walter. So what?

WALTER: Fucking Arthur Digby Sellers wrote 156 episodes, Dude. The bulk of the series. Not exactly a lightweight. And yet his son is a fucking dunce.

The Biggest Dog in the World

Apparently it’s only available on VHS. Five out of ten stars on IMDb. Definitely need to track this down eventually. I actually have a couple other VHS tapes that need digitizing eventually, and I’ve done it in the past. Meatballs 2 exists in digital format thanks to me YOU’RE WELCOME VERY MUCH.

Pushing Daisies

Nova Scotia

And so.

I once knew a girl named Harmony. She always said that her parents named her after a road that was also named Harmony. I (sorry Harmony) used to think that was kinda dumb. I mean obviously her parents knew that that name harmony was a musical term and liked that. It must have been more about that than the road itself. Now I don’t. I learned all these neat connotations about the name afterward, but I didn’t know all that stuff at the time, I just like the name I saw elsewhere and took it.

Props for getting her from a rescue.
The story is similar to ours with Jake actually. We were originally registered with a rescue but we were rejected for a lab we applied for called Jakey.
Instead we adopted ‘Ozzie’ from a family who put him up for sale after not being able to cope with him. We renamed him to Jake and the rest is history.

@Luciano – I don’t think anyone else is sad enough to make a website for their dog! #FML

No way! I saw the title of this post and low and behold, the town of Digby, Nova Scotia. That’s my hometown. Kinda fun. Anyway that’s my story and now i feel like we’re closer than ever before.Regular CSS-Tricks reader, it’s awesome. Nice dog too :)